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...Ichise can take much of the credit for this breakthrough. Returning to Japan in 1997 after a stint in Hollywood, he discovered a clique of talented young directors, including Ringu's Hideo Nakata and Ju-on's Takashi Shimizu, absorbed with making straight-to-video ghost stories. Working with budgets of about $10,000 per one-hour segment forced Asian horror's avant-gardists to rely on suspense instead of special effects. "With horror, bigger budgets don't necessarily mean better movies," says Ichise. "This group was making terrifying stuff on a shoestring. The Asian horror-movie boom that everybody...
...though, the hotbed of Asian dread remains Japan, where Ichise presides over his assembly line of scares. In the next two years he plans to release at least four more Japanese ghost movies, including one each by Nakata and Shimizu. "The day after I announced the new movies, a Hollywood studio offered to buy the remake rights to all of them," he chuckles. "I turned them down?it wasn't time to sell quite yet." In horror, after all, timing is everything...
...addressing piracy is the development of low-hassle, fairly priced alternatives to stealing. The Crimson editorial suggested that our industry is averse to embracing the full potential of the online film market. This simply isn’t the case. After all, the name of the game in Hollywood is getting people to pay to see the films our community creates. That is why the film studios I represent have played a key role in the development of legal online movie services such as MovieLink, CinemaNow and Moviebeam...
...believe that the 21st century information age will bring a new golden age for Hollywood and for consumers of movies worldwide. However, it will only do so if we address the intellectual property challenges that have gone hand-in-hand with the boom of technology. Failure to address this challenge could take away the magic and the mystery of movies. And that’s something none of us want to see happen, which is why I am committed to making sure that the MPAA is helping to lead the charge to get us to this future...
...feverish affair of Hollywood and Madison Avenue is hotter than ever as Tinseltown produces a crop of mini-movies--with stars and special effects--to help hawk goods...